I had to have two wide location excursions (lumpectomy) so lost at least 1/3 of one breast and now a further VAB (vacuum assisted biopsy -happily benign) which has reduced it further. My consultant Has always been keen to do lipomodelling to fill my breast out even more so now. I’m very slim size 8/10 but he is intending to use what he can find in “love handle” or upper thigh as the donation site. Whilst I’m keen to enhance the look of my breast I don’t want to at the expense of creating other unsightly areas of my body or causing myself significant post op trauma to do so. As anyone experience of this they can share rather than those who have it to enhance a mastectomy. Thanks
Hi
I am the same size as you but a mx so can’t help you personally but…
when it was suggested to me about lipofill instead of reconstruction I talked to a couple of girls who had had the procedure. They had dimpling to their thighs. I asked my surgeon and he said it was possible especially on a slim person. So far it’s put me off as my legs are pretty ok!!
If you do go ahead I’ll be interested to know how you get on
all the best
cath
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I’ve always had one breast smaller than the other and it was just typical that when I got breast cancer it was in the smaller breast…
The lump was so large and in such a difficult place that we decided on chemo first to try and shrink the lump to see if a lumpectomy was possible. Luckily for me, I survived chemo and it did shrink the lump considerably.
My first surgeon wanted to move / remove the nipple and reshape the breast and to consider making the two breasts look more similar. This would have involved extra bulk but we never got as far as how to do this.
I wanted to have as little surgery as possible and I wanted as much natural feeling left in the breast / nipple. I ended up with a second surgeon and they did a great job. I kept my breast and my nipple.
(It’s still all too tender and sore to tell what it will feel like. It looks OK but slightly “fallen over”)
That was more important to me than the appearance but there are limits. If the breast would have looked too damaged I would have considered other options. I can live with looking at this breast and not being continually reminded of what has happened.
We are all different. There are some very brave and strong ladies out there with scars and mutilations of all sorts. I consider myself incredibly lucky.